Haha holy shit Tumblr
Dec. 6th, 2018 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovemankindFor once I made my substantive commentary on Tumblr so I don't even know what to say here. Lmao. Obligatory "horny people have no rights" joke goes here.
I just - the more we learn about the situation, the more it sucks. I was weirdly semi-okay with it when I believed it was a clumsy, rushed decision on the heels of being removed from the app store. Like, okay, that's understandable if nothing else. That's something I'd expect from the staff. But they've apparently been working on this for over six months. What the whole fuck. How is it so badly implemented if it's been in the works for so long?! Fucking everything is getting flagged, blogs are out of order, and apparently people's drafts are being auto-posted if they get flagged and then unflagged, which is a whole other layer of flaming garbage.
Everyone's talking about how this is awful for artists and online sex workers who build client bases through Tumblr, and that's true, but it also sucks purely because Tumblr will be less horny. You don't need a morally elevated reason to be sad the porn is disappearing. I'm certainly not going to miss the exploitative IRL pornshit clogging tags, but the great art, the artsy nudes, I will miss that. I'll miss it on a political level and a moral level because I wholeheartedly believe that an open approach to sexuality is the best way to improve society's relationship with sex, but I'll also miss it because I like looking at pictures of naked people and there is literally nothing wrong with that. A considerable chunk of Tumblr fandom has gotten bizarrely anti-sex within the past few years and it really disturbs me, but that's a whole rant of its own.)
I have to start getting ready for work now (who doesn't love split shifts? :')) so I'll finish with a c/p of the post I made about this on Tumblr a few days ago. I've struck out the first two lines because I don't really feel that way anymore (I think it's pretty blanket shitty now) but I wanted to keep the context of the post intact.
joking aside, i think this is not a completely terrible measure to combat the pornbot problem, given that written erotica or nsfw text and “non-sexual nudity” as a broad category are still fine. the problem with pornbot spam and irl child exploitation was incredibly widespread, and i’m glad that they’re doing something about it. my concern is where the line will be drawn when it comes to art. the guidelines are very vague - is a full-frontal nude illustration acceptable if there’s no sexual activity depicted? what if it’s a photograph? what about 3d modeling? what if there is no sex act being depicted, but the image is clearly meant to be titillating? what if it’s ambiguously presented? what about an image (illustration or photo) of a fully-clothed person in a rope harness? is classical artwork depicting a sex act like leda and the swan okay because it has widely-accepted artistic merit?
I just - the more we learn about the situation, the more it sucks. I was weirdly semi-okay with it when I believed it was a clumsy, rushed decision on the heels of being removed from the app store. Like, okay, that's understandable if nothing else. That's something I'd expect from the staff. But they've apparently been working on this for over six months. What the whole fuck. How is it so badly implemented if it's been in the works for so long?! Fucking everything is getting flagged, blogs are out of order, and apparently people's drafts are being auto-posted if they get flagged and then unflagged, which is a whole other layer of flaming garbage.
Everyone's talking about how this is awful for artists and online sex workers who build client bases through Tumblr, and that's true, but it also sucks purely because Tumblr will be less horny. You don't need a morally elevated reason to be sad the porn is disappearing. I'm certainly not going to miss the exploitative IRL pornshit clogging tags, but the great art, the artsy nudes, I will miss that. I'll miss it on a political level and a moral level because I wholeheartedly believe that an open approach to sexuality is the best way to improve society's relationship with sex, but I'll also miss it because I like looking at pictures of naked people and there is literally nothing wrong with that. A considerable chunk of Tumblr fandom has gotten bizarrely anti-sex within the past few years and it really disturbs me, but that's a whole rant of its own.)
I have to start getting ready for work now (who doesn't love split shifts? :')) so I'll finish with a c/p of the post I made about this on Tumblr a few days ago. I've struck out the first two lines because I don't really feel that way anymore (I think it's pretty blanket shitty now) but I wanted to keep the context of the post intact.
